Issue # 8, July 2014
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Contents - Issue #8
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3 From the Editor 4 Keeping Caloundra Fuelled 5 From Little Things, Big Things Grow 9 A Potter’s Tale 14 Giving from the Heart 16 Local Artists in the Limelight 17 Haiku Meets Art 19 Sharing the Tales of the Sea 22 Book Talk 25 Caloundra Gallery
Cover Photo — Tooway Creek with Dicky Beach Caloundra in the background. Taken by Michael Phillips just after sunrise.
Articles and photos are by Mary Barber, unless otherwise attributed. Chris Postle’s art photos are contributed.
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Celebrating art, culture and community in Caloundra From the Editor
Welcome to our new
Hi folks, Welcome to Issue #8. Over the last month, I’ve
subscribers from Australia
met more local people who are expressing their
and around the globe.
creative nature as writers, gardeners, artists and organisers. Meet Dave Dawson who brings us an insightful
Alison Quigley, Buderim, Australia
book about the lives of commercial fishermen
Cheryl McGrath, Twin Waters, Australia
and women. It’s a treat for anyone who loves the
Chrissi, North Highlands, USA
sea. The staff and volunteers at the George Street
Dave Dawson, Caloundra, Australia
Community Nursery share their urban oasis
Jan Roebuck, Caloundra, Australia
with us.
Jean Anderson, Palmwoods, Australia
Jan Roebuck is our feature artist. She’s a potter
Pauline, Witta, Australia
and a jeweller who brings the two skills together to create some amazing wearable art.
Ruby Purple, Bracken Ridge, Australia
Cynthia Morgan is in the news with her 80th
Soozie Hilker, Closeburn, Australia
birthday just around the corner.
Tomislav Maretic, Zagreb, Croatia
So, enjoy Issue #8.
Veronika Kimmich, Caloundra, Australia
Mary Barber
Vibeke McMillan, Caloundra, Australia
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Wyn Vogel, Yaroomba, Australia
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Keeping Caloundra Fuelled
The morning of Thursday 26th June was a chilly 3 degrees Celsius but unperturbed, the baristas in downtown Caloundra were doing their stuff, getting the locals fuelled and ready for the day. Clockwise from top right: Graeme from Gourmet & More, Vanita and Jo from Otranto’s, Mac from La Baguette and Tim, Sam and Cade from Classic Espresso. All these businesses are in Bulcock Street Caloundra, the hub of our town. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Volunteers at the George Street Community Nursery , from left, Vibs, Clive and Margaret.
From Little Things, Big Things Grow George Street Community Nursery is a green treasure nestled in between George and Ulm Streets Caloundra. It’s a special place. Just ask Vibs. She has been volunteering here for over a year now. “The place in itself is
like a paradise in a city. You wouldn’t find this in many other places - the birdlife, the nature and the people that come here. They’re fantastic to get to know.” The nursery, which is nestled under tall scribbly gums, is a haven for butcher birds, lorikeets, white cockatoos and kookaburras. It also attracts people who love to grow plants, work outside and have a chat.
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From left: Aili Robinson, Nursery Manager at the George Street Community Nursery and Cheryl McGrath, Community Relations Manager with Steps Group Australia.
Cheryl McGrath, the Community Relations Manager for the Steps Group, says that the block of land which is owned by the Sunshine Coast Council, has been a nursery for many years. It is now leased to Steps Group Australia. Cheryl explains some recent developments: “Eighteen months ago we received a really substantial funding grant from the Federal government. We got a hothouse, a shade house. The potting shed was fixed. Our washing shed was added. We had a roof for the cottage. It really was fantastic. “Part of the agreement in getting that funding package was that we had to run training programs concurrently with the construction upgrade.” Steps ran a construction course, a welding course and two horticulture courses over a 12 month period. It was very successful.
Aili Robinson is the nursery manager who oversees the day to day operation of the nursery. Aili, Cheryl and their team of volunteers aim to make the nursery a financial success. Currently the business is being supported by the Steps Group Australia. Cheryl says, “It’s gradually picking up. Every week we seem to have a better and better income.” For Cheryl the nursery is “a perfect working example of a diverse workplace. We have people from all backgrounds, cultures, intellectual ability. Everybody just works in together.”
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Clive, a community volunteer, shares a moment with the resident scarecrow.
“You could have somebody with severe autism working right next door to one of our older volunteers. And that social interaction is just fantastic.”
“We are a disability organisation so we provide work experience here in the garden for our job seekers. We also provide work experience for mainstream job service agencies. They send their clients here for work experience. “Our volunteers come from people who have a 15 hour a week obligation to Centrelink. They are on Newstart and are too young to access their super[annuation]. We have straightout volunteers who just love being in the garden.” Clive, Margaret and Vibs are three of the regular volunteers. Clive says, “Now it’s a com-
mercial nursery, I think we can make some money out of it. There’s potential here to do that. “Everyone’s got ideas about how to run the place. Although we’ve got to follow orders, we inject our ideas in with the mix.” Each Saturday, Clive and Margaret take a truckload of plants to the Caloundra Recycle Centre. Here they sell herbs, vegetable seedlings, natives and non-grafted fruit trees, such as dragon fruit, paw paws, and mulberries. Decorative plants for the home garden are also available. Clive is confident that their
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Proud students from Mountain Creek State High School with their hydroponically-grown basil plants.
Students from Mountain Creek State High School work in the nursery on Thursdays. They researched and constructed their own project, a hydroponic garden. Now that their basil plants are large enough, they are potting them up for sale.
The George Street Community Nursery is open on Monday to Friday
from 8.30am to 12.30pm. It is accessed via Ulm Street Caloundra. Plants are also available at the Caloundra Recycle Centre on Saturdays from 9.00am to midday. Visit their Facebook page at George Street Community Nursery.
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A Potter’s Tale
Jan Roebuck, ceramic artist and jeweller from Caloundra shares her passion.
Jan Roebuck began her pottery career in the 1970s, studying with some of Australia’s leading potters at the Ceramics Study Group in Sydney. Later Jan left the wheel and turned to silver smithing, jewellery making and then lampworking. Every new artistic pursuit required new equipment. For lampworking Jan had to make her own glass beads. She has an orderly display of glass rods in her workshop that she melts
down for beads. About two years ago, a friend invited her to the Caloundra Potters’ Group. Jan was reluctant, “No, no. I’m not going to get back into potting. I’ve got all this glass-beading equipment and silver equipment. I couldn’t possibly go back into potting. I’d have to get a kiln and a wheel,” she cried. “However, she talked me into it and once I went, that was it. It was like going back
home.” Since then Jan’s workshop has grown to 4 kilns, shelves of clay, tools and glazes, tidy racks of samplers showing the finished glazes and a display of finished work. Here’s a sample of her talents…. Ceramic pot with rice paper decals in a patchwork pattern by Jan Roebuck. Photo contributed. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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A selection of Jan Roebuck’s patchwork brooches using commercial decals on porcelain clay base . Photos contributed.
These patchwork brooches are made from porcelain clay with a decal or transfer. Jan studied this technique with the Landsborough potter Johanna De Maine who is known internationally for her work. The transfers are commercially available though it is possible to make your own from photos or other images.
Making a Patchwork Decal Brooch 1. The initial brooch shapes are made from the porcelain clay. 2. The brooches are fired slowly to remove the water from the clay. This is known as bisque firing. 3. The brooches are glazed and fired again, giving them a white glossy surface. 4. The decals are cut and placed in a patchwork arrangement on the brooches. 5. Then the brooches go through a final firing to fuse the decal to the glaze. 6. A backing clip is added to the brooches.
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The centrepiece of this blue statement is a flat piece of porcelain clay curved to sit on the neckline. The decal is a commercially available French provincial pattern. Jan added the gold lustre decal for that touch of bling. She selected the lapis lazuli beads as they matched the French provincial decal so well. The work is threaded with jewellers’ silver wire known as tiger tail.
Necklace with French provincial centrepiece and lapis lazuli beads. Designed and created by Jan Roebuck. Photo contributed.
These sea critter brooches were inspired by the work of the German biologist, naturalist and artist Ernest Haeckel who lived in Charles Darwin’s time. Jan started with Haeckel’s botanical drawings of sea critters and then created her own images using Photoshop. The result was a set of individual transfers that can be resized or altered to
achieve various effects. After the first two firings, Jan used gold lustre to highlight the lines on the sea creatures and finished the brooches with an extra firing. Gold lustre is 24 carat gold applied in a liquid form.
Three sea critter brooches in sepia tones by Jan Roebuck.
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Butterfly pot with strip patchwork pattern by Jan Roebuck. Photo contributed.
This butterfly bowl was inspired by the quilt work of Judy Hooworth, an Australian master quilter. At an event in Maleny, Judy Hooworth shared the strip quilting technique. “You cut up strips of material and move them slightly before sewing them together,� Jan explains. She decided to try this technique on some pots. The butterfly pot is made from midfire quartz clay and finished with a white glaze. Jan sells her work through Main Street Gallery in Montville, the Caloundra Regional Gallery and privately. She can be contacted via her website Jan Roebuck Designs. Talk and Tea with Jan Roebuck In July 2014, Jan is demonstrating the process of making personalised jewellery using decals and porcelain clay at the Caloundra Regional Gallery. Following the short demonstration, visitors will be invited to make their own individual brooch or pendant. Jan will supply the porcelain pieces and a range of decals. Afterwards, she will collect the brooches, fire them and return them to the gallery within a week. Your finished brooch or pendant will cost $15.00. WHEN: Wednesday 16th July, 2014 at 2.20pm. BOOKINGS: Contact the Caloundra Regional Gallery.
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Giving from the Heart Textile artist Cynthia Morgan turns 80 on Saturday 12th July. She is turning tradition on its head. To celebrate, she is giving away 80 of her works to collectors and supporters. Cynthia is an artistic treasure in our seaside town. She received the Sunshine Coast Australia Day 2011 Creative Award and the title Honorary Ambassador for Caloundra. In the last few months, Cynthia has survived open-heart surgery twice. Her daughter, Andree Roberts says her tireless
mum is now well on the road to recovery and will continue to create her textile artworks. According to Andree, Cynthia is enjoying this gifting experience. She has donated Swimming Upstream to the Seaview Gallery at Moffat Beach where patrons can buy a $2 raffle ticket for this work. On July 18th, she is handing over Focus on Fungi and Focus on Fungi II to the Caloundra City Council and Regional Art Gallery. The Zonta Club of Caloundra City will receive Kakadu. Top: Textile artist Cynthia Morgan in her home studio. Below: Swimming Upstream by Cynthia Morgan. Photo contributed.
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Sunshine Coast Private Hospital and the University of the Sunshine Coast will also receive artworks. Three works are being gifted to St Andrew’s Hospital and staff in Brisbane, including
Cascade, pictured here.
Top Right: Cascade by Cynthia Morgan. Below: Southbank Re-visited by Cynthia Morgan. Photos contributed.
Cynthia has remembered her family members too. Her daughter Andree has been given Southbank Re-visited . However Andree says, “I can’t bear to take this stunning artwork off her
studio wall. She is my mother and I am so proud of her. Happy 80th Birthday mum!” Editor’s Note: Cynthia Morgan was featured in Issue #5 of Tamarind Magazine.
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Local Artists in the Limelight The President of the Friends of the Gallery, Lesley Muir is proud to be associated with the exhibition Local Artists, Local Content. This inaugural exhibition opens with a Gala event on Wednesday evening 9th July, 2014. at the Caloundra Regional Gallery.
Lesley Muir, President of the Friends of the Gallery.
Lesley says, “Our gallery here runs a big annual exhibition, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, but that covers the whole of Australia. There are a lot of talented local artists. Many of them don’t get a chance to hang their work in a regional gallery so [as Friends of the Gallery] we decided we’d do the art exhibition for that purpose.” The exhibition of 40 two-dimensional works was selected from 133 entries from artists living on the Sunshine Coast. This initial selection was made by the committee members of Friends using digital images. “It’s a selection of all different mediums and all different aspects of the Sunshine Coast. It’s not only traditional art, there’s abstract works as well. The criteria for entry was that each work had to depict the Sunshine Coast,” Lesley explains. The works will be judged on Tuesday 8th July by Dr Craig Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at Griffith University in Brisbane. The first prize of $3,000 has been contributed by Fox Mildwaters Solicitors who have a long history of supporting the arts. This prize, known as the E.B.Fox Centenary Prize, also acknowledges that it is 100 years since they opened for business on the Sunshine Coast. Another $3,250 will be divided for the second, third and fourth place prizes. The Caloundra Regional Gallery is fully supporting this inaugural event. All three gallery spaces will be used to show the 40 works to their best advantage. 16 additional works will be displayed at libraries across the Sunshine Coast for local residents to enjoy. Local Artists, Local Content opens for general viewing from 10th July and runs to
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Haiku Meets Art Chris Postle has a way of noticing our natural world and bringing it to our attention in vibrant detailed images. Here is his latest gift to Tamarind readers. The Perfect Match is a pair of red-tailed black cockatoos that live in coastal areas of South East Queensland. The birds are annual visitors to a big red cedar tree in Chris’s backyard during the tree’s flowering season. Thank you for your haikus everyone. A selection appears on the next page. This piece certainly sparked some interesting responses. The art piece for our next haiku page will be posted on the Tamarind website. I’ll let you know when it’s online. Editor.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST Queensland artist Chris Postle has been painting for over 25 years. He has won numerous awards throughout Australia for his seascapes, landscapes and nature studies. Chris exhibits his work at the Harbourside Gallery at Tewantin on the Noosa River and privately. Each year, he shows new work in exhibitions
across the east coast of Australia. Chris Postle can be contacted via his website Sunshine Coast artist, Chris Postle at the Harbourside Galley, Tewantin.
chrispostle.com.
Cockatoo couple the echo of spring Summer greetings amidst cedar flowers cockatoos find a home.
in their song. Rita Odeh Nazareth, Israel
Archana Kapoor Nagpal Bangalore, India
A painter watches Two in love a third above
cockatoos watching him – perfect encounter. Valeria Barouch Geneva, Switzerland
makes a crowd. Dominique O’Carrigan Boonah, Queensland, Australia
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Sharing the Tales of the Sea Have you ever stood at a harbour and watched a working fishing boat set out for the night and wondered?
Dave Dawson, proud author of Salt of the Sea Tales of Commercial Fishermen.
“Fishing for your livelihood is a constant emotional roller coaster. I’ve had highly successful trips where I’ve hit the mother lode but I’ve also had long dry spells where I can’t even seem to catch a cold. You travel between heaven and hell as a fisherman. It’s a tough job and not always financially rewarding but commercial fishermen fish for one main reason only – because they love it!” Commercial fisherman Luke Ruttley in Salt of the Sea by Dave Dawson.
Salt of the Sea will give you an insider’s look at life at sea. It is an engaging collection of stories from fishermen and women working in Australian waters, presented as a coffee table book. Dave Dawson wrote the book to set the record straight. He says these hard-working folk who put food on our tables are often painted as being “pillagers of the ocean.” “In fact, commercial fishing has minimal impact on the environment. No marine species anywhere in the world has ever been made extinct from over-fishing yet land based birds and animals in numerous countries are now extinct due to human impact,” Dave says. “We’ve got a good example with the Mooloolaba prawn fleet. They first started prawning here in the 1950’s. If that fishery was unsustainable, it would not have made it into the 1960’s but in terms of product, the resource remains very strong.” TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Mooloolaba trawler. Gunsynd II. Photo contributed.
Dave himself, has worked on prawn trawlers and crab and line boats, trawling and fishing for spanner crabs and reef fish in the Coral Sea. After some hair-raising experiences at sea, he decided to stay on land and opened his business Commercial Fishing Supplies on the Sunshine Coast. Salt of the Sea starts with an informative forward written by an eminent marine park expert Professor Walter Starck. As an island nation, Australia has a massive coastal fishing area that is exclusively ours. This is known as the Economic Exclusion Zone and is a 200 mile wide zone around our coast. However, this could change. Dave explains, “If a country does not properly utilize the resources within its own EEZ, then another country can apply to the international court in The Hague to have access to
that zone.” Dave thinks the reasons we don’t’ use our EEZ well, are the restrictive fishing regulations and the financial uncertainties. Operators face high fuel costs and competition from cheap imports. Government regulations such as licences and quotas change with new administrations and new policy directions. Many younger fishermen and women are leaving the industry and choosing livelihoods with more financial security. Dave wanted to record these stories while
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Two young commercial fishermen whose stories are told in Salt of the Sea. Left: Zach Aitken with two red snapper, off White Island, New Zealand. Right: Luke Ruttley with a yellowfin tuna. Photos contributed.
Salt of the Sea shares many grand fishing tales. There’s danger, great catches, wild seas and glorious original photography. The book introduces some younger men of the sea who are keeping this skill set alive, for now.
Official Book Launch for Salt of the Sea Date: Sunday 27th July, 2014 2pm-5pm: Book signing and meet the author 5pm - 6pm: Official presentations Location: The Yacht Club, 33-45 Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba Books can also be purchased by contacting Dave Dawson on 07 5438 8458 or at dave@commercialfishingsupplies.com
You can also visit the Facebook site, Salt of the Sea - Tales from Commercial Fishermen.
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Book Talk Lost & Found by Brooke Davis Reviewed by Graeme Bowden from the BookShop at Caloundra I was able to read this whimsical story in just three sittings but wanted it to go on for much longer. This is a terrific tale with three main characters. There’s Millie Bird, seven years old, obedient to a point, very wise but a bit preoccupied with dead things, Agatha Pantha, old, reclusive, cantankerous, very resourceful and delightful in a funny sort of way and Karl the Touch Typist who is very old, kind, lonely, brave and just a bit resourceful. Agatha and Karl want to help Millie find her Mum. Their quest has them crossing paths with a range of people who all bring different complexities to the story and increases the reader's enjoyment. I knew this story had to end because I was running out of pages but I was not expecting this ending, it is brilliant, and perfect. I have no doubt Brooke has written a story people will love and talk about for a very long time. Bookseller Graeme Bowden from The BookShop at Caloundra.
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I Am Malala By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb This book review was contributed by Janelle Gibson, a member of the Tamarind Book Club. Thank you Janelle. I Am Malala is all about education for all and it was certainly an education for me. Malala was born into a poor family in the Swat Valley of Pakistan.
Her parents were happy to have a healthy baby but Malala was born into a society where “rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain.” Her father founded a school, so education was central to their lives. Malala and her father had been fighting a long battle in the media and at speaking events, to ensure that girls had the right to an education. As the Taliban took more control of their valley, Malala was used to hiding her books under her shawl as she went to school. Her life was one of contrasts. One week she would be off with her father speaking about the importance of schools for girls and the next she would be at home discussing the “Twilight” books with her friends. One fateful day, she was leaving school when her bus was stopped, and a man the girls assumed was a journalist, shot Malala point blank in the face. Miraculously, Malala survived. She was taken to England for treatment as it was believed her life would still be in danger if she remained in Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai has become an internationally acclaimed speaker against the Taliban and an advocate for girls’ education and rights. In reading this book, I realised we become so sheltered in our own world that we forget how difficult others’ lives can be in today’s world. I really enjoyed reading I Am Malala. It was a lesson in modern history and a courageous personal story.
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Tamarind Book Club News for July 2014 Tamarind Book Club meets in Caloundra on the first Thursday of the month at 10am. WHERE: The Caloundra Powerboat Club. In July we are reading The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. It is written by Jonas Jonasson. To join us, go to Tamarind Book Club.
Here’s a selection of the books we have read since we started meeting in October 2013. Come along and help us choose some more great reads.
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Caloundra Gallery Featuring Shelly Beach
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